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The LEED Programme identifies, analyses and disseminates innovative ideas for local development, governance and the social economy. Governments from OECD member and non-member economies look to LEED and work through it to generate innovative guidance on policies to support employment creation and economic development through locally based initiatives.
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from 24-Mar-2010 to 26-Mar-2010
The second biennial Working Communities Congress will explore international policy and local innovations to improve global perspectives on addressing unemployment. The Congress will be a forum for international thought leaders – to share experiences and strategies to broaden perspectives, challenge thinking and inspire innovative solutions – towards the goal of creating healthy, vibrant and sustainable working communities.
Venue: Grand Hyatt Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne (Australia)
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on 12-Mar-2010
The objective of this workshop is to review the innovative tools and methods used, as part of local information systems, by local development organisations to: i) measure skills supply, demand and utilisation in local economies, ii) identify policy needs, shape policies and programmes that can best address these needs and iii) understand if policies are bringing results.
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from 01-Dec-2009 to 03-Dec-2009
Asia is learning quickly to put in place recovery packages that are oriented to industrial restructuring through focus on skills and training packages that can get the workforce oriented to different industries. LEED policy messages to upscale production and job quality were widely discussed at a joint OECD/LEED & ILO Expert Meeting in Indonesia.
The first related report following this meeting "Skills and Employment Strategies in Southeast Asia: Setting the Scene", is now available for download from the dedicated OECD interactive site: https://community.oecd.org/community/esssa
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from 16-Feb-2010 to 17-Feb-2010
Despite the first signs of economic recovery, unemployment will remain high for the years to come and it will take long before employment gets back to pre-recession levels. The 6th Annual Meeting will bring together some 200 representatives of local partnerships, government officials, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, trade unions and academics to review how local development actors are adapting to this new reality and what are the innovations emerging on the ground to respond to these new challenges.
Venue: Vienna (Austria)
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from 26-Oct-2009 to 28-Oct-2009
Ensuring a smooth and quick transition from education to employment and fighting education drop-out trends are key objectives of youth policies across OECD countries. The seminar was addressed to those already working in partnerships on youth policies, or in the process of establishing a partnership in one of the following areas: (i) promoting entrepreneurship; (ii) youth skills initiatives; and (iii) integrating youth with accumulated disadvantages.
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21-Sep-2009
This project supports local development organisations in strengthening their information systems. It provides guidance on data collection, analysis and use in policy making, customised to conditions in each participating area. It helps policy makers to build evidence on: What makes your local economy work? What drives it forward, what holds it back? Where and how policy should intervene? Is policy bringing results?
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